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Tenth Circuit Holds Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Provide Religious Meals
Loaded on April 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 27
Tenth Circuit Holds Prison Officials Liable For Failing To Provide Religious Meals
Filed under:
Food,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Defenses,
Magistrates,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Religious Diet,
Religious Practices.
Location:
Colorado.
The Tenth Circuit court of ap- peals has held that prison officials unconstitutionally interfered with a punitive segregation prisoner's exercise of religion when they failed to accommodate the needs of his religious beliefs by delivering Ramadan meals at ...
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